Getting Lonely, Getting Old: The Overlooked Health Risks of Senior Isolation (click for PDF)

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Written as an assignment for HSCI 900: Core Concepts and Practice for Public Health I to identify and summarise a public health issue of our choice in the form of a newsletter with an advocacy lens.

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